India is home to many great culturally blended dance forms, let’s look at the most important eight forms of it. Indian classical dance otherwise known as Sastria Nithya is attempt for various performances or rooted in religious Hindu musical theater styles whose theory and practice can be traced to the Sanskrit text Nrithya Shastra, the number of recognized classical dances ranging from minimum of eight and the number largely depends on the source and scholar.

The Sangeet natak academy recognizes eight forms of dances is classical they are Bharatnatyam, Kathak, Kuchipudi, Odissi, Kathakali, Sattriya, Manipuri and Mohiniyattam these dances are traditionally regional, all of them include music and recitation in local languages Sanskrit and they represent a unity of core ideas in a diversity of styles, costumes and expression.